The bacterial flora of venoms and mouth cavities of Costa Rican snakes.

Effects of Iranian Snakes Venom True Sea and Terrestrial Snakes on Some Bacterial Cultures

The antibacterial activities of eight snake crude venom (Macrovipera lebetina obtusa, Pseudocerastes persicus, Pseudocerastes urarachnoides, Echis carinatus sochureki, Gloydius halys caucasicus, Naja (naja) oxiana, and two species of true sea snakes Enhydrina schistose and Hydrophis cyanocinctus) were assessed against five important standard pathogenic bacterial strains (Escherichia coli, ...

Variation in yield and lethality of venoms from Iranian snakes

Venomous snakes of Costa Rica: biological and medical implications of their venom proteomic profiles analyzed through the strategy of snake venomics.

UNLABELLED In spite of its small territory of ~50,000km(2), Costa Rica harbors a remarkably rich biodiversity. Its herpetofauna includes 138 species of snakes, of which sixteen pit vipers (family Viperidae, subfamily Crotalinae), five coral snakes (family Elapidae, subfamily Elapinae), and one sea snake (Family Elapidae, subfamily Hydrophiinae) pose potential hazards to human and animal health....

A study of bacterial contamination of rattlesnake venom.

Several investigators have studied cold-blooded animals in terms of contamination by different types o f organisms. Hinshaw and M cN eil4 isolated Salm o­ nella rubislaw from 3 out o f 12 Sceloporus occi­ d e n t a l specimens. Zwart24 reported the iso­ lation o f Salmonellae from 37.5% of lizards. LeN oc and Brygoo9 isolated 58 different types o f sal­ monellae from 48 out o f 127 chameleons e...

Normal oral bacterial flora from some southern African snakes.

Eighteen snakes representing 11 species were subject to mouth swabbing on 58 occasions. Of these swabs, 52.2% were positive for bacteria. A total of 92 bacterial isolates were cultured, representing 30 species of which 81.5% were Enterobacteriaceae, 16.3% gram positive cocci, and 2.2% anaerobes. Swabs from non-venomous snakes were more commonly bacteriologically sterile than those from venomous...